This one was a short and quick read, so I knocked it out this weekend just so I wouldn't feel like I wasn't getting anything finished. I originally put it on hold thinking it was about John Lee Hooker, Sr., the great blues musician, and was slightly disappointed when I realized it's actually about his son. It turned out all right. His story was interesting, too.
Junior was raised in Detroit in the 1950s and got hooked on cigarettes, alcohol, and heroin at an early age. He spent over half his life in various prisons for stealing and running con games in order to feed his habits. He ended up dedicating his life to God and became a preacher.
Reading about how he literally robbed everyone in his family time and time again (his mother and sisters used to take their purses with them into the bathroom so he couldn't take money out of their wallets) and they still kept forgiving him and trying to help him was wild to me. I'm really glad he's in a better state of mind now, living and preaching in Germany and hopefully inspiring others to stop their bad behavior.
Now I just need to find a biography about his dad...
